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Hello everyone. Im not sure if this is the correct section to post my question, or if it needs to be in the Storage Devices. thought this may be more appropriate, but feel free to move it if not Mods.
I have a Gigabyte Motherboard (EP45-UD3L)
It has total of 4 Hard Drives (SATA)
2 are SSDS in SATA ports 0 & 1 <-- These are NOT in RAID, but individuial Drives. 1 for the OS the other for a few Games and Documents.
The other 2 are WD Black Edition Spinning Drives for Storage.
and a Bluray Drive in the Last SATA Port.
I have been running in AHCI mode using the standard AHCI driver that Windows 7 installs.
Overall the PC itself runs perfectly fine. No apparent problems.
The issue I have may be seem silly, but for some reason it sees all my Drives (SSDs & Spinners) as removeable. They are all listed in the Safely Add/Remove Hardware Icon, with the option to eject.
Also, each Hard Drive is listed indivdually in the Devices and Printers Menu.
Now to my question.
I tried to install the newest Intel AHCI driver. All seems to be OK, and the drives are no longer listed in the safely remove Hardware or the Devices and Printers section.
However, I noticed that the device manager lists the driver as "Intel AHCI ICH10R"
Hence my confusion. This motherboard is not supposed to have the ICH10R chipset, rather it has a ICH10.
Will this difference hurt anything?
I do not use RAID features anyway, but was curious what the actuall difference is or if theres a way to get the Intel Driver to install as ICH10.
I have a Gigabyte Motherboard (EP45-UD3L)
It has total of 4 Hard Drives (SATA)
2 are SSDS in SATA ports 0 & 1 <-- These are NOT in RAID, but individuial Drives. 1 for the OS the other for a few Games and Documents.
The other 2 are WD Black Edition Spinning Drives for Storage.
and a Bluray Drive in the Last SATA Port.
I have been running in AHCI mode using the standard AHCI driver that Windows 7 installs.
Overall the PC itself runs perfectly fine. No apparent problems.
The issue I have may be seem silly, but for some reason it sees all my Drives (SSDs & Spinners) as removeable. They are all listed in the Safely Add/Remove Hardware Icon, with the option to eject.
Also, each Hard Drive is listed indivdually in the Devices and Printers Menu.
Now to my question.
I tried to install the newest Intel AHCI driver. All seems to be OK, and the drives are no longer listed in the safely remove Hardware or the Devices and Printers section.
However, I noticed that the device manager lists the driver as "Intel AHCI ICH10R"
Hence my confusion. This motherboard is not supposed to have the ICH10R chipset, rather it has a ICH10.
Will this difference hurt anything?
I do not use RAID features anyway, but was curious what the actuall difference is or if theres a way to get the Intel Driver to install as ICH10.